Flexible suspension for rope hoisting equipment and in particular for mine cage winding



Oct. 25, 1932. OTTO. 1,884,981 FLEXIBLE SUSPENSION FOR ROPE HOISTING EQUIPMENT AND IN PARTICULAR FOR MINE CAGE WINDING Filed 001. 15, 1930 z 9 LU E 1 J :0 4 r FL 4 0 Z 5 7 4 4 4 A 8 6 rd 6 3 o 2 1 4 8 F z w n M 2 o o u nhl l l i l l l lH lu n 7 8 I ll 7 9 P23 532d ill dill

I ranged did Patented Oct. 25, 1932 UNITED ST TES rarsn'r OFFICE FRITZ OTTO, F DUBSEL DOBI', GERMANY FLEXIBLE SUSPENSION Application died October 15, 19%, Serial No.

Attempts have frequently been made to use friction springs of the kind employed in railway-coach bufiers for deadening the dangerous vibrations of. winding ropes. Such springs may be used to advantage for the object in view, more especially because the necessary damping action is obtained by employing purely metallic elements, thereby avoiding the proposed damping edect produced by contrivances of the oil-piston type, damping effects of this kind being irequently undesirable in mine service.

The disadvantage of friction springs is that, owing to the constant load of the weight of the cage and rope, they are not able, or frequently not able, to bring the cege back again into its initial position, as the force ex: erted by the recoil is too small compared with the constant load. The spring is liable to jam under the maximum compression so that no spring tension whatever is evailable for the following vibrations. In addition, troubles are liable to arise by reason of the spring recoiling under such a high tension Practical tests have proved that arrangements of this kind are useless,

According to the invention, this drawback is overcome by the provision of a further spring, which, however, is frictionless, in addition to urely metallic dempin elements, such as iriction bufiers with friction segments or friction springs made adjusteble in radial direction by means of wedges, the arrangcment oi this. additional frictionless spring being such that the static load is substantially apportioned to the frictionless spring, while the friction springs are lairto come into action not before the dynamic supplementary loads are brought into play, in this manner the vibration stresses proper, both positive and negative, can be taken under reduced spring tension and alloyed, the frictionless springs supplying the necessar recoil force for establishing the static equili riuin state for the cage and maintaining it in this state. Q

in the accompanying drawing Fig; i is on elevation and Fl 2 a side elevation of as construction embo led in the invention end edapted for one- "ded deedening ot the vi according to Fig. 3.

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brations, while Fi 3 is an elevation of a construction designe for double-sided deadening of the vibrations.

In the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the intermediate gear, consisting of the rope dead-eye l, the supporting straps'2, 3, 4, 5 with their connecting bolts and the crossbars e, 7, 8, are arranged between the hoisting rope and the cage, llhe straps 5 are connected with the king post 9 of the cage, the latter not being shown. Between the crossbars 7 and 8 are interposed two columns of practically frictionless disc springs 10 which are kept under a certain degree of tension by the bolts ll. in addition, a friction spring column 12 is arranged between columns, the friction s ring column eing connected with the cross or 8 by the bolt 13 and likewise kept under corresponding tension. The disc springs for the maximum static load when the cage is at the banking level. Now, if the intermediate gear is suspended between the rope and the cage, the disc springs 10 are compressed until the stop 14 on the crossbar 7 engages with the friction spring column 12, with the result that the springs 12 are compressed when the dynamic supplementary loads come into play.

While in the case of the first construction only the positive vibrations a e alloyed, both the positive and negative vibrations ere taken and deadened by adopting the construction To this end the casing chambers 16 and i7 10 are proportioned 15, consisting of two situated one above the other, the crossbar 8. The friction spring 12 is accommodated in the chamber 16 and the triotion spring 12 in the chamber 17', the springs being maintained under corresponding tension y the screw 13' guided in the crossbar 'l, The positive vibrations are taken by the iriction'springm as in Figs. 1 and 2, the crossbar 8 enga 'ng with the friction spring 12 by means of t e stop it, while the negative vibrations are transmitted to the friction spring 12 by the head 18 of the screw 13.

What 1 claim is:

Flexible suspensionmeans for hoisting apparatus, comprising upper end lower cross the two disc spring.

on 15 attached to Y bars, vertical rods connecting said cross bars and on which the lower cross bar is vertically movable, disc springs of minimum friction on said rods and extending from cross bar 5 to cross bar, hoisting means connected to the lower cross bar, hoisting means "connectedito the upper cross bar, a bolt arranged between the rods, and movable vertical! through the lower cross bar and a helicoi a1 friction 1'3 spring column around said bolt and bearing between the head of said bolt and the said; lower cross bar, said upper cross bar havin a stop to bear on the head of the bolt an move the latter downwardly fagainst the ten--' 5 sion of the said helicoidal sprin column when the upper cross bar is move downwardl relatively to the lower cross bar by the load:

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